Originally Posted by
dentree
Driving along, then sddenly I appear to have no steering, the brakes fail and the car dries itself into a barrier all front end fender damage, do not know if the engine actually shut down, this event took all of five seconds, from no steering to impact, however the car then drove normally and has not faulted for the last 3 weeks, the mechanics have had the diagnostic tool on the car and can find no faults, after the impact I thought about what the cause might be and the only thing I could come up wit was a failure of the crankshaft sensor, which I would have imagined if it were to fail to read the crankshaft pully (or variant) the fuel pump would stop, the distributor would shut down (so no spark, no fuel) no engine running to drive the brake booster and no power steering pump operating, does anyone see rthis as a valid line of thinking?
